Monday, November 25, 2019

Revit 2020.2 Update Released - What's New?

While over 12k Autodesk customers where arriving at Autodesk University last week -- in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA -- the Revit 2020.2 update was released. This is another solid list of mid-major-release updates, which spoon feeds new features, along with bug fixes, to subscription customers.


This post will highlight these new features...

Keep reading to learn more...
First  off, this update can be easily installed from the Autodesk Desktop App, which is what the previous image is from. Notice the link to the release notes as well (this itemizes every bug fix and enhancement); I provided this link below for your convenience.

MEP Updates

Edit Circuit and Panel information within a Panel Schedule view as shown in the next two images. Simply click on a circuit or the panel name to reveal related properties, in the Properties Palette.




Architectural Updates

Develop more sophisticated path of travel with waypoints to better direct the resultant path.




Platform Updates

Improved View Navigation and Fly-through navigation in Perspective mode. Use W,A,S, D, Q and E as well as holding the left mouse button to turn in 3d Views.




Schedule enhancements:
  • Freeze header rows to enable scrolling and keep headers in view
  • Highlighted row is now highlighted blue


Expose internal point of origin:
The internal origin can now be seen in any view. The Project Base Point no longer has a paper clip option. There is an odd situation with projects already in the 2020 format, where the new sub-category Internal Origin (under Site) does not get created. See Steve Stafford's post linked below.




BIM 360 Design Updates

We can now see the full path to linked files within BIM 360 Design.


Dynamo Updates

Dynamo 2.3 Release
Dynamo nodes for steel connections that load analysis results
Dynamo nodes that load steel connections from libraries 


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